Editor,
This is in response to the letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo written by Mark Justice Hinton, "Public education crucial to free circulation of ideas."
Would you rather go to Smith's Food & Drug, Whole Foods Market, Albertson's, Raley's, or to the Motor Vehicle Department, the Social Security office, or Medicaid office? That would be the difference between government schools - the disaster they are now - and voucher schools. In my many years on this planet, I have only seen one thing the government does well - and it's not the American education system.
Hinton asks, "If the state has no business at all in education, who does?" The answer is: people who would do it well. When people or businesses or schools have to compete, they produce a better product - every time.
The trouble in schools coincides with the removal of morality in schools, which was fostered by the liberals, not the radical right. I'm not a fan of either, but Hinton's statement is not accurate.
And neither is his statement regarding estate taxes. The burden of taxes has never spurred growth in any country.
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Hinton's misconceptions are frightening.
James McClure
Daily Lobo reader
